#503: Marcus Swanepoel on Crypto in Emerging Markets

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Marcus Swanepoel is co-founder and CEO of Luno, a leading global cryptocurrency company on a mission to upgrade the world to a better financial system. In this conversation, we discuss emerging markets financial infrastructure, myths of emerging markets, technology strategies vs distribution strategies, regulatory environments, and the DCG acquisition. ======================= Own crypto in multiple exchanges and wallets? Sync them to CoinStats so you track and manage them from one place. Track 8000+ coins and 300+ exchanges all from the Coinstats platform. Try it for free or go to coinstats.app/pomp and get 40% off your premium subscription. ======================= As one of the largest and oldest Bitcoin exchanges in the world, Kraken is consistently named one of the best places to buy and sell crypto online, thanks to our excellent service, low fees, versatile funding options and rigorous security standards -- but this is only part of the story. We’ve been on the forefront of the blockchain revolution since 2011: http://www.kraken.com ======================= Coinbase Wallets are adding support for .crypto and .zil domains through their partnership with Unstoppable Domains. Unstoppable Domains provides an all-in-one solution for blockchain domains. You can send money using these new domains instead of long Bitcoin wallet addresses, while also storing your domain in Coinbase's collectibles section. Go to unstoppabledomains.com in the dapp browser to register and manage your domains. =======================

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to the Pomp
0:05.2	podcast, simply the best podcast out there. Let's kick this thing off. Marcus Swanpole is the co-founder and
0:11.6	CEO of Luno, a leading global cryptocurrency company on a mission to upgrade the world to a better
0:17.1	financial system. In this conversation, we discuss emerging markets financial infrastructure,
0:22.4	the myths of emerging markets, technology strategies versus distribution strategies,
0:27.6	regulatory environments, and the DCG acquisition that Luna recently went through.
0:32.7	I really enjoyed this conversation with Marcus, and I hope you do as well.
0:37.2	Before we get into this episode,
0:38.4	though, I want to quickly talk about our sponsors. First up is coin stats. If you own crypto in a
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